Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

A smile is a smile.

Some journeys lead nowhere, but they set the spirit free

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.

White folks' greed runs a world in need.

Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?

I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.

I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.

I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet.